Tons of news in the market today as we unpack the surprisingly good job numbers, the Senate holds placed on Ben Bernanke’s renomination, and the massive Comcast-NBC deal and what it says about the new realities for mass media — all on the 99th edition of Coffee and Markets.
Detailed here. Essentially, Kurtz is placing himself in a bad position by taking money from CNN for his Reliable Sources program, despite the fact that Kurtz is paid by the Washington Post to cover the media . . . which would include CNN, of course.
I mean, this is banal, insipid tripe, and about the only thing that makes it distinctive is the fact that Thomas mixed her personal politics into her advice.
No? Well, let me mention it now: Hugo Chavez is a dictator. And a brutal one, to boot:
There is no dispute in Hugo Chavez’s country over the fact that he is a dictator. His actions against the remaining vestiges of an independent media make that clear. Thus, it is comforting to read that Venezuelan journalists are not going to take Chavez’s depredations lying down:
I will never cease to be amazed by the fact that at one point, there was a debate over whether the title of this post reflected an accurate statement: